sugarplum

[ shoo g-er-pluhm ]

/ ˈʃʊg ərˌplʌm /

a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.

Origin of sugarplum

First recorded in 1600–10; sugar + plum¹

The sugar-plum came from Italy, and dates no further back than the sixteenth century as an article of commerce.

The Art of Entertaining |M. E. W. Sherwood
"She's as sweet as a sugar-plum," he added, as he continued to look.

What Answer? |Anna E. Dickinson
Knowing that you would like to help, I send some paper for sugar-plum horns and some beads for necklaces.

Jack and Jill |Louisa May Alcott
To be patted on the back and given a sugar-plum does not reconcile even a child to a past injustice.

Character and Opinion in the United States |David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

My sugar-plum and stewed-prune lady, whose fine sharp nose, like Cupid's darts, hath pricked me to the heart!

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15) |Robert Dodsley

sugarplum

/ (ˈʃʊɡəˌplʌm) /

a crystallized plum